I've ran into this before, and it was actually after a reinstall that it happened (not every instance though, I've had this trouble a few times). Are we certain the relative has not done a reinstall by him/herself at some point? Let me tell you from experience that Chrome has to be wiped clean if you decide to get rid of it. It has left the updater service not only installed, but running, after I've gotten rid of Chrome. It leaves folders and files in nutty places, and of course the registry entries stay.

I've come to the point where I hand delete every Google entry I can find if I get rid of Chrome (I've had an off and on relationship with it for a long while now, lol). Me, I'd save the favorites to an HTML file and start over. Btw, I really don't think Chrome needs to be the default browser to update, that would be rather silly and I can't see any reason why it would need to be to function. Otherwise, why don't all browsers require it, you know?

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Has anyone ever come across such error? It's the first time it happened.
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ber 16, 2011
Blogger laforge@chromium said...

@nuggetshoops, it might be worth opening up task manager and killing all open chrome.exe processes. On some rare occasions one hangs around after the browser shuts down, so on the update restart we can't swap out the new chrome w/ the running Chrome. Killing the old processes should fix the issue.

Since this problem started, Google Chrome had two more updates. The same situation would happen. Google Chrome could not update.

The first time it happened, I had to uninstall Google Chrome and then use the offline installer. After that, as I mentioned above, Google Chrome updated twice.

The latest update was applied today, but I couldn't get Google Chrome to update by itself.

I remembered that sometime ago I couldn't install extensions in Chromium/Google Chrome. It turned out that Google made it impossible to install extensions while having Google Analytics blocked. So, I decided to unblock it, and Google Chrome updated fine.

I had this problem before. Only way I took is uninstall via "Add/remove" then manually delete Chrome folder related then download Chrome installer via GPack. Install and run it,fine. Updatable by itsef till today, I have the latest.

speaking G analytics,where did you find it while you're trying install extension ?